Month: November 2009

  • A new kind of DSLR

    All Digital SLR cameras look a like because it’s a tried design solution. But what about other forms and patterns? Erin Fong is trying to offer something completely different with this Nova camera concept. Innovative, for sure. From designer Erin Fong.

  • A gift for Christmas?

    Thanks to Swarovski and Olympus, you can now offer a stupendous photo camera: An Olympus EP-1 studded with Swarovski crystals. If you have to ask for the price, you can’t afford it. But, it’s £1999.99 in the UK.

  • How a seal tried to feed Paul Nicklen

    YouTube link The leopard seal is really a big predator (check its size on the photos) and it’s perfectly adapted to its environment (much more than a man in a diving suit). But this one, not only let National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen shoot great pictures, but tried to help him by feeding him live…

  • Bursting the bubble

    Here is an exceptional photo. Nothing was Photoshopped, its author, Richard Heeks, only reinforced a little the colors to make them a little more vibrant. This a soap bubble popping in front of the camera. Try and do the same.

  • Julia Komissaroff

    Julia’s work is definitely rich. She is exploring a lot of fields, faithful to the documentary style of photography. Her black and white photographs are telling the story of many a human being. She travels in countries but you could also visit her gallery of graphic art pictures. Palestinian who works on the restoration of…

  • LeicaShots

    LeicaShots is a new web site sponsored by Leica and showcasing one Leica photographer every day. If you love our portfolios, I’m sure that you will spend a lot of time at LeicaShots, too.

  • A White Paper for the Canon 1D Mark IV

    If you want to know everything about the technology included in the Canon 1D Mark IV, you can now download the White Paper published by Canon about this pro photo camera whose possibilities are clearly astonishing (as much as the price, by the way; But, who’s to prohibit dreaming a little?). Canon White Paper for…

  • Modify the EXIF dates of your pictures

    The EXIF data hold a lot of useful technical information about your photos. One of these is the date and hour of the snapshot. This is quite pleasant, useful and nice up to the moment when your camera internal clock fails or starts lagging. Or when you need very precise synchronization with another device (like…

  • How lenses are made?

    If you don’t know, you may be interested in this video from Canon. YouTube link